So Long, South 19th Street!

As most of you know, Bala and Laly have offered to let me stay with them until I leave in the fall. (Before I go any further, let me just say THANK YOU to them; I feel so blessed and so thankful to have such wonderful & amazing friends in my life!)

That being said, today is moving day, and I have mixed emotions about the whole thing. The last several weeks of packing and preparing, reflection and resolution have been almost surreal. Sorting through all that was accumulated, material or not, over the past eight years of my life was no easy task. The "emptying process" that God had me go through was painful at times yet also necessary. But I see now that it has all been leading up to this: moving on.

"Closing time - time for you to go back to the places you will be from ...
Closing time - every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
(Thank you, Lisa; it's actually just what I needed to hear.)